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Empowering the Elderly? : How 'Help to Self-Help' Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark /

Health programmes that offer "help to self-help" are meant to empower ageing adults to remain independent and self-sufficient at home for as long as possible. But what happens when the private home becomes a political realm in which state intervention and individual agency happen simultane...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clotworthy, Amy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcipt, [2020]
Colección:Aging studies ; v. 20.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Abstract
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The construction of 'the elderly' and the paradox of the Third Age
  • The emergence of the 'limited yet limitless' ageing consumer
  • Reablement or 'everyday-rehabilitation' programmes in Scandinavia
  • The book's motivation, aim, and relevance
  • Examining eldercare encounters through the lens of 'empowerment'
  • Overview of the book's chapters
  • 1 From help to self-help: the transformation of eldercare in Denmark
  • 1.1 Understanding 'healthy ageing' in Denmark
  • 1.2 Denmark's emergence as a welfare state
  • 1.3 Denmark's emergence as a competition state
  • 1.4 The 2007 reforms and the empowerment of the municipalities
  • 1.5 The changing role of municipal health professionals
  • 2 'Following the rhetoric' in a Danish municipality
  • 2.1 The municipality as a site of ethnographic inquiry
  • 2.2 Municipal introduction programme and entering 'the field'
  • 2.3 Attending municipal community events for the elderly
  • 2.4 Fieldwork among three groups of health professionals
  • 2.5 Interviews and other research: places, people, policies, and perspectives
  • 2.6 Gaining insight from an intersubjective, situated position
  • 2.7 Ethical obligations and the handling of empirical material
  • PART I: LABOUR
  • activity related to the biological process of the human body
  • Introduction
  • 3 Evaluating the body's need for help
  • 3.1 The primacy of the rational consumer's physical body
  • 3.2 A focus on offering 'opportunities'
  • 3.3 The mindful agency of active consumer-citizens
  • 3.4 Engaging the 'limited yet limitless' body
  • Summary
  • 4 Embodying potential
  • 4.1 Developing the body's potential for self-help
  • 4.2 The embodiment of self-helping habits
  • 4.3 The importance of repetition and praise
  • 4.4 When the body lacks potential
  • Summary
  • PART II: WORK
  • activity related to the artificial world of structures and objects
  • Introduction
  • 5 Navigating public/private divisions
  • 5.1 Crossing the home's threshold
  • 5.2 Evaluating the home as a setting for ageing in place
  • 5.3 Negotiating the home as a public/private space
  • 5.4 When a lack of privacy is welcome
  • Summary
  • 6 Stabilising the home to promote 'ageing in place'
  • 6.1 Re-stabilising the home as a place of security
  • 6.2 The significance of home-based routines
  • 6.3 Adjusting the home's materiality to provide security
  • 6.4 Feeling secure in the public space outside of the home
  • Summary
  • PART III: ACTION
  • activity related to the human condition of plurality
  • Introduction
  • 7 Offering free choice and empowerment
  • 7.1 Locating the power of the Will
  • 7.2 Encountering a citizen's 'messy subjectivity'
  • 7.3 Empowerment through free choice
  • 7.4 Relinquishing free choice
  • Summary
  • 8 Producing a 'shared responsibility' for care
  • 8.1 Encountering 'irrational' citizens